Exemption to sight saving equipments and their accessories and spare parts falling within Chapters 84, 85, 90 or 98 - 144/88 - Customs -Tariff

Exemption to sight saving equipments and their accessories and spare parts falling within Chapters 84, 85, 90 or 98 Notification No. 144/88-Cus. Dated 27-4-1988 In exercise of the powers conferred by Sub-section (1) of Section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts sight saving equipments and their accessories and spare parts, falling within Chapters 84, 85, 90 or 98 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), specified in column (2) of the Table hereto annexed, when imported into India, from - (i) the whole of the duty of customs leviable thereon under the said First Schedule; and (ii) the whole of the additional duty of customs leviable thereon under Section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act. THE TABLE S. No. Description of goods (1) (2) 1. Ophthalmoscope - Direct/indirect. 2. Ophthalmic/Xenon Arc. 3. Fluorescein angiography equipment including fundus camera. 4. Ultrasonic equipment (A scan/B scan/Pacchy meter/Cleaners). 5. Microsurgical needles, cannulas, blades, trephine blades, membrane peelers, diathermy probes, vitreous cutters, atraumatic needles and sutures, intra ocular scissors and forceps. 6. Tonometer (Schiotz/Application/Pneuma) 7. Retinoscope Streak/spot. 8. Operating glasses (2x, 4X, 6X)/Binomag. 9. Gonioscope, 3 mirror lens, special lenses for laser delivery special diagnostic lenses (14D, 20D, 90D), Endo lens. 10. Sterilisers (high speed/ethylene). 11. Specular microscope with monitor and recorder. 12. Intraocular lenses/Keratoprosthesis/orbital inplants. 13. Diathermy equipment. 14. Synoptophore. 15. Silicone Sponges/rubber/bands, for Retinal Detachment Surgery. 16. Vitrectomy equipment. 17. Phaco-emulsification system. 18. Visual field recording equipment. 19. Ocular electro physiological testing equipment [Electroretinography/Electroculography/Visually evoked response equipment (ERG, EOG VER)]. 20. Keratometer/Automatic keratometer. 21. Prism bars. 22. Laser Interferometer. 23. Pocchymeter - Optical/Electronic 24. Aspiration - irrigation - equipment. 25. Automatic refractometer. 26. Complete refraction unit with phoropter/projecto-chart. 27. Ophthalmic hydraulic chair. 28. Lensometer/Projection lensometer. 29. Low visual Aids and sets (telescopic glasses). 30. Colour vision testing equipment. 31. Photoelectric keratoscope and Thermokeratoscope. 32. Pseudo-isochromatic Chart Book/Ishiare.